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Venn Diagram - Completed




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U.S. Immigration, 1880-1914. Scholastic Teaching Resources. Retrieved September 29, 2010 from http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/immigration.


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Hi Kerrie! I got your email message. Thank you for volunteering to post our completed Venn Diagram. I am going to post my thoughts about two cartoons shortly.

Nicole Kline's thoughts:

Welcome to All:

  • Joseph Keppler

  • peaceful and welcoming

  • Uncle Sam is on the Refuge Ark and is welcoming immigrants that are surrounded by war

  • claiming no taxes, no kings, everyone is welcome!

Kerrie's thoughts:
  • welcome to all is only welcoming white european immigrants
  • Uncle Sam is offering free education, free land, free speech, free ballot, and free lunch
  • the clouds have "war" written above them and are dark

Where Both Platforms Agree:

  • J.A. Wales

  • very violent--nailing Chinese man to an "anti-chinese" plank

  • showing violence and discrimination

  • could be encouraging the start of war with China by the mistreatment of a Chinese man

Kerrie's thoughts:
  • one plank represents the republican party and the other plank represents the democratic party
  • implying that he votes of chinese immigrants are not valued by either party
  • symbolic of the american desire to restrict chinese immigration



SIMILARITIES:

  • 1880 is when the images were created

  • both published in PUCK magazine

Kerrie's addition:
  • both tell a story about the treament of immigrants

*Nicole, let me know what you think of my additions and if you have anythings else to add!!

I had a really hard time finding information explaining what these cartoons meant. I was finally able to get them to load on LOC website. Many of the other links in the module were not working for me. So I do not have any other resources.
Kerrie:
A great teaching resource I found for teaching about US immigration from 1880-1914 is: http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/immigration

Kerrie--I think it looks great! Are you sure you are okay with compiling it all to the Venn Diagram?